L’Assaut des Cieux

2009 – Creation for 6 performers and one lyrical singerRe-run in 2014 in Brussels, Théâtre Varia

Awarded “best dance show of the year” (Critic’s Prize 2010)

« He who one day teacheth men to fly will have shifted all landmarks; to him will all landmarks themselves fly into the air; the earth will he christen anew—as “the light body. »

Nietsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”

« “Macrocosms of our inner selves, a constantly changing ephemeris, cradle to many a hierophany, the heavens continue to be an enigma and an inspiration. We know of the existence of galaxies, meteorites, lightening, the divine beings that inhabit these spaces where time and light follow their own laws.The dawn, the zenith, the twilight, the night… These grand, silent and irrational movements lead men to action, propel their bodies into motion, influence their moods, their colors, their sexuality.Man does not stop wanting to understand, to anticipate the movements of the sky in order to attain clemency. He seeks at the same time to tame and master it. Thus the endless striving of astronomy, meteorology and science to understand and rationalize the external world.In this Baroque imbued performance, the characters set off on a quest toward an absolute. The impossibility of such an undertaking is felt throughout.Like Don Quixote, Prometheus or Icarus, they go beyond their fear and rise up in order to be on par with the gods.And if finally the Heavens were empty ? Courage would remain. »